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Director shareholding

An award of 65,649 deferred shares to Simon Pitts representing the final element of incentive awards forfeited at his previous employer. Half of these shares will vest on 31 March 2019 and the remainder will vest in March 2020.

348,025 conditional nil cost share awards of 50p each to a total of eight employees under the STV Group plc Long-Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”) which was approved by shareholders on 26 April 2018.

The awards were granted at a price of £3.23 per ordinary share (the closing share price on Monday 10 December 2018) and these eight employees included one executive director as follows:-

Director

Shares awarded

Simon Pitts(Chief Executive Officer)

123,839

These will be released to the participants in the form of deferred shares in three years time and following a further holding period of two years will vest subject to the continued employment of the participants and the satisfaction of the following performance conditions:-

Performance conditions

Weighting

Threshold vesting (25% of max)

Max vesting

Annualised growth in adjusted EPS from FY17 to FY20

50%

7%

12%

Non-broadcast operating profit in FY20

30%

£7.0m

£11.0m

TSR relative to the FTSE Small Cap Index

20%

Median

Upper quartile

Performance period for each metric commences on 1/1/18 and ends on 31/12/20